FOOD, CULTURE AND JUSTICE IN THEBIBLICAL TRADITION (OT 1180)
Term: 2024-2025 Fall Semester
Description
Food informs and reflects many aspects of human life and community. It also appears on nearly every page of the Hebrew Bible. This course examines a variety of narrative and poetic biblical texts about food and land, placing them in conversation with cultural discourse (both pop and scholarly).
Particular attention will be paid to cultural attitudes about food with respect to gender, class, race, and other social boundaries, the agrarian setting and worldview of ancient Israel, the role of food in religious life and ritual, and the theological importance of a just relationship with the land and the
food it yields.